The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
JOJO MOYESI felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
More Jojo Moyes Quotes
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There is a whole lot more to life than winning.
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Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.
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That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.
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You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.
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How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?
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The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
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I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.
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I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But I love you. I do. I knew it when I left Patrick. And I think you might even love me a little bit.
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“Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
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Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
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And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.
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